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Letter 84
An elephant with his trunk raised is a ladder to the stars.
A breaching whale is a ladder to the bottom of the sea.
My photographs are a ladder to my dreams.
These letters are ladders to you.
Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.
They laughed. It took some effort so they had to stop walking to do it. Then they plodded toward the spiral staircase. It took them five minutes to walk the last two hundred feet. "Thank God," Roger said. "Stairs. Was worried I couldn't go uphill anymore.
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
of dark passageways, their footsteps echoing. Schoenberg
You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.
Don't Rush Up The Stairs, you Just Might Fall. Take it One Step At A Time!
I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator
The minutes jog up the down escalator.
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.
The alphabet was an invention below stairs.
There are different ways to climb a mountain.
It is not easy to fling oneself down stairs in a skirt; there is always the risk that you will tangle your legs and go headlong. But I made it.
The lift is about SPEED and COMFORT, but the stairs are about CERTAINTY! The lift may go wrong but stairs seldom do, you can always take the stairs. They are BOUND to take you UP and to the END as long as you continue to climb!
As we move, a roar like the voice of some satanic creature bellows from the staircase. The fire's voice. I've heard it in lots of places, and the sound turns my insides to jelly. There's a reason human beings will jump ten floors onto concrete to escape being burned alive. That roar is part of it.
You gotta climb the steps ... you can't skip them
Sometimes its better to take the stairs because till the time the other person opens the door of the elevator, you reach your destination.
Peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:
To be very successful, climbing the stairs will not be enough; you must climb the icy stairs as well!
The tremendous secrecy of alleys between houses
If there are alleys inside me, there must also be hallways. I
Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.
The stairs ended. I wished I knew the jackass who'd made the staircase so short. I'd throw him down the damn steps so he could count them with his head.
The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.
The stairway is not
a thing of gleaming strands
a radiant evanescence
for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not
touch the stone.
I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.
You just have to take the first step , you don't have to see the whole staircase.
There might be too many stairs to go up; ignore the stairs!
And death climbs up the steps one by one.
I'm building a dream with elevators in it.
Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.
Choose the paths which are not worn out by many feet!
Wherever there is art, there is a staircase over there where you can ascend to the high places!
I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder.
I passed your floor on the way up, and now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again.
Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already trailing, and your feet will soon follow suit.
I love you because
Five floor walk up
1 to the 2 to the E
Three avenues
Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mean with that?
(I think that... once upon a time.... .you had something in your head more than a candy!)
Thousands of people in the city who lived in walk-ups dreamed of moving out so they could escape having to climb flights of stairs. Yet here she was, surrounded by women of her age and younger, paying for the privilege.
Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow.
I sigh. I may like to run, but I hate climbing stairs.
HOME, which is the last floor for everyone.
When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.
The staircase was deserted - the higher up the building the more reluctant were the residents to use the stairs, as if this in some way demeaned them.
If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway
...and one of those neat spiral stairways in the far corner-I wonder where it leads. Spiral staircases always seem to me like they must lead somewhere special.
I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.
When the elevator to your dreams is broken, take the stairs.
We all Need a Staircase to Grow Up Together from Friendship
The landings were dirty and the walls were bare. This stairway brought me into the balcony, and I sat there in the dark, thinking that nothing now was going to save me, that no pretty girl with new shoes was going to cross my path in time.
Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.
I took the stairs two at a time. There's a time for decorum and a time to run like a crazed vorpal's after you, except a crazed vorpal's an oxymoron. This was the time to run.
Me pause. An invisible line that practically pulled me toward those stairs leading
Upstairs on a bus! It's Unbelievable
you look down flights of stone steps, overhung by great pink tufts of valerian and
Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom.
What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.
walls, the upturned cars, the barking dogs, the
You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.
Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
She took a right, and then another right. Shouldn't the long corridor leading to the stairs be just ahead? Where had she made a wrong turn?
God, to go back to when my biggest fear was a hallway.
Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!
Stairs are only leading up So I smile!
Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
One cold November, I resolved to kill the staircase spawn... ("Staircase Man" by Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam)
Why do I have the compulsion to caution you strenuously against going up those stairs, Windham? Perhaps you'll be swarmed by bats or set upon by little ghoulies with crossbows." "Oh, for God's sake, what could be hiding in an empty old carriage house?" ***
The carriageway to the front door was wide, and graceful white birches lined it. In autumn they shed a carpet of gold on the road, and in winter, burdened with snow, they arched over it, a frosted white tunnel paned with glimpses of blue sky.
Hello?" No reply. My shoulders sag. "What's the point of a staircase if no one is here to watch my entrance?
Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.
When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.
front hallway while they were gone.
What mazes there are in this world.
the stairwell and into the room where I will decide the rest of my life. The room is arranged in concentric circles. On the edges stand the sixteen-year-olds
Get your runtcheeks down those stairs, right now
room below and a bedchamber above.
There comes a time in every young girl's life when she is instructed by a complete stranger to scale a tall ladder for dinner atop a roof, and in almost every case the best thing to do is refuse and run home to call the asylum from which the stranger escaped.
Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!
The mysterious morning stillness of hall and staircase. Who were the sleepers hidden in the upper regions? Let the house reveal its own secrets; and, one by one,
To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream
his way across the slanted roof over the
Even there, intimacy evolved its alchemy. A solemn marble stairway led to corridors covered with red carpets, upon which one moved noiselessly.
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question...
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
There is a darkened corridor, forgotten by the sun, shrouded in shadow and transgression.
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
orange trail leading down to the kitchen and
From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.
...the narrow arched entries that continually vomited passengers.
I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.
The Corridor is a series of environments, challenges, and puzzles that have to be overcome. I'm the Conduit, you're the Runner. I'm here to tell you the rules. You must decide how to use them.
Everytime I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted.
The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs?
-Clary, pg.266-
As I'm sure you know, the expression 'It's all uphill from here' has nothing to do with walking up stairs - it merely means that things will get better in the future.
It is through the valley that one reaches the mountain top. I need but take one step at a time until I reach the pinnacle.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine - Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run